The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-11
Mountain Lake Park Hotel.

1t is with great pleasure that the owner and
proprietor of this house announces to former
friends and patrons of the past, that 1t will be
opened for guests on July Isl, 1887.
Every pains will be taken to improve its
management as much as possible over former
seasons, and make it the best for the price of
any resort IN the country, and equal to any
In real solid, sensible comfort.
For the information of those who are stran-
gers to the place the following description of
the Park and its surroundings, with the pro-
gramme of exercises for the coming season
may be of interest:
While for many years Chatauqua, Ocean
Grove and Asbury Park have been attaining
national reputation as Summer Resorts for
the religious world, another enterprise of like
character has been quietly planned and car
r1ed out with wonderful success within five
short summer seasons.
In the heart of the Great Glade Region" of
the Alleghenies, where the b. & o. Railroad
crosses these mountains, about 5000 feet above
the level of the sea, lies the beautiful summer
resort Of Mountain Lake Park, consisting OF
about 1000 acres of rolling woodland, laid of
in broad avenues and delightful drives, inter-
spersed with handsome summer cottages in
the center of which is situated the Mountain
Lake Park Hotel, which is managed by Mr..
ii. ii. van Meter, the owner and proprietor,
who was formerly of the firm of H. H. Van
Meter e Co., of Watkins Glen. Coming from
the East or the West the tourist passes
through the most picturesque of river and
mountain scenery, from the historic beauties
Vi lne fOIOHdC OF Une fertile valley OF JD6
Ohio, up the rocky crags that overhang the
Savage or Cheat river regions, till the climax
is reached on the mountain tops, and the
train glides swiftly along the glade land and
pauseS for moment at Mountain Lake Park
Station, within view of the Hotel, half hidden
amid the oaks that surround it. Three eX-
press trains each way daily direct from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton on the East. Chicago, st. Louis and Gin
cinnati on the West, stop at the Park-except-
ing on Sunday: The natural surroundings
are unsurpassed for beauty of scenery and
heath fulness, mountain drives, rambles and
streams Astounding in every direction, while
the climate is cool, bracing and invgorating
beyond the imagination of any one who has
never spent summer season in the Glades,
and the social, intellectual and religious adj
vantageS are greater than at any other noun
tain resort in America, there being one con-
slant succession of Conventions, Summer
Schools and Assemblies during the entire
season. These exercises, which are held in
the Park Auditorium, but a short distance
from the Hotel. are so arranged as to combine
interest and instruction as pleasantly and
profitable as possible.
The programme for the Season of 1887 begins
with what has been termed "the Camp Meet
ing" commencing July Sth and closing July
18th, inclusive.
DR.. Dougan Clark, of Indiana, and David
Updegraf, of Ohio assisted by other leaders
prominent among whom will be Mr.. Stephen
Merritt, of New York City, are to conduct a
series of eVangelistic services, somewhat up
ON the plan of the Ocean Grove exercises
which have heretofore proved wonderfully
popular, and promise to be far better atten-
ded this year than ever before, and that by
| the finest class of people.
These are followed from July 26th to 10Th
inclusive, by the Interstate Convention Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
which brings together representative body
of the Christian ladies of the land from every
section of the Union, commanding some o.
the ablest talent engaged in the cause, and tC
be presided over by Mrs. Caroline b. Buell. o.
national reputation.
The Mt. Lake Park Sunday School Assem-.
bley takes place from August % TO 18th inclu-
sive, and is conducted according to the Chau.
tauqua exercises, combining courses of lee
lures, instruction and entertainment, by able
and attractive speakers from the various
denominations, and atfording such advan-
tages as can seldom be secured at such reas.
enable rates. even In our largest commercial
and literary centers.
Summer Schools of Amatuer Photography
Languages, Elocution, Art, and Botany, also
Normal kindergarten are arranged for the
season.
The rates for tuition to all of these schools
| are as reasonable as expenses will permit
while the hotel charges are the cheapest fol-
that can be found anywhere, and anyone
wishing further information concerning then
will receive prompt reply by addressing
MR.. II. ii. VAN METER, Mt. Lake Park Hotel
| Garrett county, Maryland.
| Round trip excursion tickets from al
| points upon the line of the b. d o. II. X. are
issued for the season at one-hal the regular
rates, and special tickets for the various con-
ventions can be secured at less than half the
| regular rates of fare from all places upon the
| line, while the hotel charges are as low as Is
consistent with the keeping of q flrst.class
| Summer Resort of this character.
Deer Park, the famous resort of the Balt1
more and Ohio Railroad Company, lies abou
four miles to the East of Mountain Lake Park
and Oakland, the equally well known resort
only about one and a-half miles TO the West
| these three places being connected by quich
| trains and beautiful drives, and combining
the most complete variety of entertainment
| for the visitor, with all the advantages OF Thu
| lofty mountain altitude.
Fish and game are abundant along the heaS
waters OF the Potomac and Youghiogheny
| rivers and the "Black Water Region" al
within easy reach, and unsurpassed for trou
and bass, while to the East and West alont
the line of the b. & o. Railroad and to the
| South, where the New West Virginia Contra
has penetrated the wilderness, the mountain
scenery can scarcely be equaled for romantic
beauty or rugged grandeur this side of 1.-THE
| Rockies"
Heretofore there has been some hesitancJ
| in speaking highly of the place, as Its newnes
necessarily renders 1t incomplete in convein
fence as compared with older resorts, bu